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    Assessment of Awareness of Available Gender Based Violence Interventions among Women of Reproductive Age in Kibera Slums Nairobi
    (Kenyatta University, 2021) Wairimu, Wanjohi Bancy; Margaret Keraka; Michel Mutabazi
    Dealing with violence against women is key for achieving sustainable development goals (SDG) for equality of gender and empowering women and SDGs 3, 4 and 5. Globally, GBV prevalence accounts for 10-35%. In the year 2014, 45% of Kenyan women aged 14-49 years have reported some form of gender-based violence in their lifetime. About 29% of the women reported to have had experienced it in the previous year. About 16% of these women, reported sexual abuse and 13%, of them had it happen in the previous year. The study assessed awareness on available GBV interventions to women of reproductive age in Kibera. It also identified the types of interventions which were offered to survivors. Descriptive cross sectional study was used (which involved collecting and analyzing both qualitative and quantitative data) and this was conducted in Kibera slums. A sample size of 390 women of the reproductive age was conveniently selected from Kibera which has 13 villages hence 30 women from each village. The respondents were interviewed to obtain the required information using structured questionnaires which had both closed and open ended questions. SPSS version 20 was used for statistical analysis. Chi square tests was carried out to assess awareness of availabile GBV interventions. Descriptive analysis was used. This study confirms that there is a gap between the variable age where the p value is 0.001 which is less than the level of significance of 0.05 where the younger an individual is, the lower the level of awareness on available GBV interventions. The higher the education level, the lower the level of GBV as per the findings where the variable education had a p value of 0.001. The study found challenges in accessing health care for victims of GBV where survivors felt they could not report the perpetrators most of who were the breadwinners hence legal measures was the least taken form of intervention accounting for only 4.3% of the study participants had sought legal redress.Verbal abuse was the most rampant form of abuse accounting for 24.4%. A 49.1% of the interviewees did not seek any help for the abuse faced. About 10% of the interviewees had faced more than two forms of abuse. Sexual abuse accounted for 18.7% which is higher than what had been reported by KDHS in Kenya in the year 2014 which was at 16%. The rape cases were at 3.3% which is a higher number considering this was just done in one slum area in Kenya which when compared to South Africa that reported a prevalence of 11% of rape cases. Affordability of interventions, accessibility, acceptability of legal measures and cultural factors all have a p value of less than 0.05 meaning that these factors affect awareness of the available GBV interventions. Out of the clients interviewed, 28.7% were not aware about any type of interventions offered. The study also found that majority of the cases occurred from their partners or people within the household. Sexual harassment rate was high as well as verbal abuse accounting for 15.4% and 24.4% respectively. The findings of this study if applied will assist in raising awareness on the available GBV interventions in Kibera Slums.